There are 10 ways to get from Athens to Cologne by plane, train, bus, car ferry or car
Select an option below to see step-by-step directions and to compare ticket prices and travel times in Rome2rio's travel planner.
Recommended option
Fly to Cologne/Bonn Apt • 6 h 9 min
$76 - $308
9 alternative options
Fly to Dusseldorf • 6 h 54 min
$94 - $337
Fly to Frankfurt, train • 7 h 8 min
$130 - $395
Fly to Dortmund, train • 10 h 16 min
$193 - $540
Bus, train • 29 h 54 min
$300 - $404
Bus Korona Travel • 34 h 29 min
$147 - $182
Bus, car ferry, train • 2 days 0 h
$283 - $596
Bus Crazy Holidays • 2 days 7 h
$95 - $136
Drive, train • 26 h 10 min
$436 - $632
Drive • 24 h 58 min
$380 - $600
Questions & Answers
What is the cheapest way to get from Athens to Cologne?
The cheapest way to get from Athens to Cologne is to bus which costs 80€ - 120€ and takes 2 days 7 h.
What is the fastest way to get from Athens to Cologne?
The quickest way to get from Athens to Cologne is to fly which costs 65€ - 280€ and takes 6 h 9 min.
How far is it from Athens to Cologne?
The distance between Athens and Cologne is 1952 km. The road distance is 2569.8 km.
How long does it take to get from Athens to Cologne?
It takes approximately 6 h 9 min to get from Athens to Cologne, including transfers.
Is there a direct bus between Athens and Cologne?
No, there is no direct bus from Athens to Cologne. However, there are services departing from Athens Pedion Areos and arriving at Köln via Thessaloniki. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 2 days 7 h.
Bus or fly from Athens to Cologne?
The best way to get from Athens to Cologne is to fly which takes 6 h 9 min and costs 65€ - 280€. Alternatively, you can bus, which costs 130€ - 160€ and takes 34 h 29 min.
Launch map view
- Distance: 1219.9 miles
- Duration: 6 h 9 min
What companies run services between Athens, Greece and Cologne, Germany?
Eurowings, Lufthansa and six other airlines fly from Athens to Cologne hourly. Alternatively, you can take a bus from Athens to Cologne via Brno, Brno Zvonarka, Cologne/Bonn Apt Airport, and Köln, Grengel/Flughafen Köln/Bonn Flughafen Bf in around 34 h 29 min.
Airlines
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Athens to Cologne/Bonn Apt via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 5 h 8 min
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $200 - $750
Flights from Athens to Dusseldorf via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4 h 43 min
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $200 - $800
Flights from Athens to Dusseldorf via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 5 h 10 min
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $200 - $800
Flights from Athens to Dusseldorf via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 5 h 30 min
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $200 - $800
Flights from Athens to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3 h 1 min
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $180 - $800
Flights from Athens to Frankfurt via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4 h 40 min
- When
- Monday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- $190 - $800
Flights from Athens to Dortmund via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 6 h 57 min
- When
- Monday to Friday
- Estimated price
- $340 - $1,100
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Athens to Cologne/Bonn Apt via Milan Bergamo
- Ave. Duration
- 5 h 20 min
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- $55 - $220
Flights from Athens to Cologne/Bonn Apt via London Stansted
- Ave. Duration
- 6 h 20 min
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $55 - $220
Flights from Athens to Cologne/Bonn Apt via Bologna
- Ave. Duration
- 7 h 10 min
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $55 - $220
Flights from Athens to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3 h 5 min
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $50 - $550
Flights from Athens to Frankfurt via Milan Bergamo
- Ave. Duration
- 5 h 20 min
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- $50 - $550
Flights from Athens to Dortmund via London Stansted
- Ave. Duration
- 9 h 50 min
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $95 - $380
Flights from Athens to Dortmund via Krakow
- Ave. Duration
- 5 h 10 min
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $110 - $650
- Website
- aegeanair.com
Flights from Athens to Dusseldorf
- Ave. Duration
- 3 h 10 min
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $130 - $650
Flights from Athens to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3 h 1 min
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $180 - $800
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Athens to Cologne/Bonn Apt via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 5 h 20 min
- When
- Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $230 - $950
Flights from Athens to Dusseldorf via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 5 h 20 min
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $210 - $900
Flights from Athens to Frankfurt via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 5 h 2 min
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $240 - $950
- Website
- airserbia.com
Flights from Athens to Dusseldorf via Belgrade
- Ave. Duration
- 5 h 7 min
- When
- Monday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- $140 - $600
Flights from Athens to Dusseldorf via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 5 h 20 min
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $190 - $1,200
Flights from Athens to Frankfurt via Belgrade
- Ave. Duration
- 5 h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $170 - $800
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Athens to Cologne/Bonn Apt
- Ave. Duration
- 3 h 5 min
- When
- Tuesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $100 - $1,800
Flights from Athens to Dusseldorf
- Ave. Duration
- 3 h 15 min
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $95 - $650
Flights from Athens to Dusseldorf via Stuttgart
- Ave. Duration
- 5 h 15 min
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- $95 - $650
- Website
- wizzair.com
Flights from Athens to Dortmund via Katowice
- Ave. Duration
- 7 h 50 min
- When
- Wednesday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $80 - $320
Flights from Athens to Dortmund via Cluj-Napoca
- Ave. Duration
- 6 h 10 min
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- $80 - $320
Flights from Athens to Dortmund via Bucharest Otopeni
- Ave. Duration
- 7 h 45 min
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $80 - $330
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Athens to Cologne/Bonn Apt via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 4 h 55 min
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $230 - $650
Flights from Athens to Dusseldorf via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 5 h 30 min
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $200 - $800
- Website
- alitalia.com
Flights from Athens to Dusseldorf via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 5 h 20 min
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $190 - $1,200
Flights from Athens to Frankfurt via Milan Linate
- Ave. Duration
- 5 h 20 min
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $290 - $1,300
- Website
- flypgs.com
Flights from Athens to Cologne/Bonn Apt via Sabiha Gokcen
- Ave. Duration
- 7 h 10 min
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $130 - $650
- Website
- flysas.com
Flights from Athens to Dusseldorf via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 5 h 35 min
- When
- Monday to Friday
- Estimated price
- $160 - $750
- Website
- en.ellinair.com
Flights from Athens to Frankfurt via Thessaloniki
- Ave. Duration
- 5 h 20 min
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $140 - $480
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Athens to Frankfurt via Berlin Tegel
- Ave. Duration
- 5 h 20 min
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $80 - $420
Train operators
- Phone
- +49 0180 6 99 66 33
- Website
- bahn.com
Train from Frankfurt(M) Flughafen Fernbf to Köln Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 56 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $35 - $55
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Hegyeshalom to Wien Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 49 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $17 - $26
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Wien to Würzburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 5 h 9 min
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- $110 - $170
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Würzburg Hbf to Köln Messe/Deutz Gl.11-12
- Ave. Duration
- 2 h 19 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $60 - $90
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from München Hbf to Köln Messe/Deutz Gl.11-12
- Ave. Duration
- 4 h 24 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $110 - $160
- Website
- bahn.de
- Phone
- 0221 13 999 444
- Website
- nationalexpress.de
Train from Holzwickede Bf to Köln, Dom / Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1 h 20 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $23 - $30
- Website
- nationalexpress.de
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Venezia Santa Lucia to München Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 6 h 57 min
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $55 - $100
- Website
- orario.trenitalia.com
- Website
- oebb.at
Train from Kufstein to München Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1 h 16 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $24 - $35
- Website
- fahrplan.oebb.at
- Book at
- Raileurope.com
Bus operators
- Phone
- 210.92.33.33
- info@koronatravel.gr
- Website
- koronatravel.gr
Bus from Athens to Rajka
- Ave. Duration
- 18 h 16 min
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- $103
- Schedules at
- koronatravel.gr
Bus from Athens to Brno
- Ave. Duration
- 20 h 8 min
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- $103
- Schedules at
- koronatravel.gr
- info@eurolines.cz
- Website
- elines.cz
Bus from Brno Zvonarka to Cologne/Bonn Apt Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 13 h
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- $45 - $80
- Schedules at
- elines.cz
- Phone
- 2610 623 888
- Website
- ktelachaias.gr
Bus from Athens to Patras
- Ave. Duration
- 2 h 30 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- $22 - $26
- Schedules at
- ktelachaias.gr
- Phone
- +30 2310 510835
- contact@ktelthes.gr
- Website
- ktelthes.gr
Bus from Athens Pedion Areos to Thessaloniki
- Ave. Duration
- 6 h
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- $45
- Schedules at
- ktelthes.gr
- Phone
- 210 88 08 000
- info@ktelattikis.gr
- Website
- ktelattikis.gr
Bus from Athens - Pedion Areos to Thessaloniki
- Ave. Duration
- 7 h 30 min
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- $40 - $60
- Schedules at
- ktelattikis.gr
- Phone
- 2310-241545
- Website
- crazyholidays.gr
Bus from Thessaloniki to Köln
- Ave. Duration
- 2 days 0 h
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- $55 - $80
- Schedules at
- crazyholidays.gr
Ferry operators
- Phone
- +30 210 8919700
- superfast@superfast.com
- Website
- superfast.com
Car ferry from Patras to Venezia
- Ave. Duration
- 31 h 1 min
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- $95 - $310
- Schedules at
- superfast.com
- Deck
- $96 - $98
- Aircraft-type seats
- $116 - $119
- 2 bed inside cabin
- $307 - $310
- 3 bed outside cabin
- $260 - $310
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